Tag: poems

• I Suppose I Have Something to Say…

  Hi all, The other day I concluded that I am a hamster on a wheel and at some point, either the wheel is going to break, or I am going to fly off it. I don’t know what either of these outcomes would literally involve, I just know I’m tired and frustrated because I don’t…

  The Hopeful Edwardian

  August 24, 2026

  Life, Uncategorized

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• An Edith Poem

  An Edith poem I wrote that doesn’t fit into the book. Peidi was Freddy’s nickname for Edith, I think because it rhymes with Edie, but we’ll never know. The ‘poem about death’ is from Khalil Gibran’s The Phrophet (1923), a minor anachronism But I’m taking poetic liberties. I wrote this after reading a friend’s poetry…

  The Hopeful Edwardian

  July 19, 2024

  Edith Thompson

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